burnt

«burnt» in Mova's school dictionary: Damaged or destroyed by fire or heat — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb, past and past participle of «burn» (burn, burns, burnt or burned, burning); adjective (burnt)

meaning for a pupil

1) Damaged or destroyed by fire or heat. tree →

2) Cooked too long so it is black or dark and tastes bad. tree →

3) Hurt by fire, heat, the sun or a strong chemical. tree →

4) Used up as fuel, like wood, coal or calories. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety, «I burnt my hand» needs cool running water for many minutes; burnt toast sets off smoke alarms. In science, burning is a chemical change that cannot be undone: burnt paper turns to ash and smoke. Phrases: «burnt toast», «burnt to a crisp», «burnt out» (very tired, or a fire that has stopped), «get burnt».

examples

• I burnt the toast and the smoke alarm went off. tree →
• She burnt her finger on the hot pan. tree →
• The old barn burnt down in the storm. tree →
• Burnt wood cannot turn back into a tree — it is an irreversible change. tree →
• His back was burnt by the sun. tree →
• The cookies smelled burnt. tree →
• We burnt dry sticks on the campfire. tree →
• Running hard burnt lots of energy. tree →
• It is burnt to a cinder. tree →

note

«Burnt» and «burned» are both correct; «burnt» is more common in British English, «burned» in American English. As an adjective before a noun, «burnt» is usual everywhere: «burnt toast». For a burn, cool it under cold running water for about twenty minutes and tell an adult; no butter or ice.

In the corpora

• Toast turns brown because sugars and proteins react into new substances; burnt toast is black because it has partly turned into carbon.
• A boy in Leeds left a spill of oil on the kitchen floor; his mum slipped carrying a pot and burnt her leg.
• "You can't get burnt when it's cloudy," says your big sister, and comes home pink.
• The three friends were thrown into a fiery furnace but were not burnt.
• And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «burnt» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.